Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y

[Miles Bader]

>   * wrong-type-argument (stringp, nil) is, anecdotally speaking, both
> the most common error encountered by casual users and the most feared,
> because it's incredibly difficult to debug.  What's so hard about
> debugging it?  It prevents Emacs from starting up!

Come to think of it, _this_ is a pretty dubious claim too (or rather,
it's a collection of dubious claims)...

-miles

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